The Coin of God and of the World

Today’s Office of Readings from the beginning of a letter to the Magnesians by Saint Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr:

“All things have an end, and two things, life and death, are side by side set before us, and each man will go to his own place. Just as there are two coinages, one of God and the other of the world, each with its own image, so unbelievers bear the image of this world, and those who have faith with love bear the image of God the Father through Jesus Christ. Unless we are ready through his power to die in the likeness of his passion, his life is not in us.”